Deer Hunters Would Freak if They Saw a WolfAn Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

Approximately one million deer in a state as small as
Oklahoma. And exactly ZERO wolves. 100,000 deer killed during hunting
season, and it’s not even a dent in the deer population. Natural processes
have been ousted and ignored–hunters there would freak if they if they saw a
wolf. I can just hear their screams of, “Those wolves are going to eat all
our game…” It’s the same story that’s going on across the country. Hunters
don’t want healthy deer or elk populations, they want a surplus to justify
their “harvests.”

Despite news that wolves are starting to spread out to other states,
after their re-introduction to the Tri-state area of the Northern Rockies,
wolves are still extinct in most of their former range in the continental
U.S. Yet, it seems there’s no shortage of deer; in fact ungulate populations
have been booming since the near continent-wide extermination of wolves and
other predators that left the lower 48 in ecological turmoil.

Take Oklahoma for example. According to their ”local OKC weekend hunting
news”:

Oklahoma’s gun season opens Saturday. The rut is expected to be going
strong across the state in the coming days. State wildlife biologists in
Okla. expect the peak of the rut in most areas of the state to happen
sometime before Saturday’s opening.

Barring any major weather events that keeps hunters at home, Saturday
will be the biggest deer hunting day of the year. More deer are taken on the
opening day of gun season than on any other. The rut, the mating season of
deer, is triggered primarily by moon phases. However, the rutting activity
that hunters see has more to do with the weather.

The first time Oklahoma hunters checked in 100,000 deer for all seasons
combined was 13 years ago. Since then, there have been only three years that
Oklahoma’s deer harvest has not exceeded 100,000.

Wildlife biologists estimate deer hunters take about 10 percent of the
deer population during hunting seasons. This gives Oklahoma an estimated
deer population about one million.

Approximately one million deer in a state as small as Oklahoma. And
exactly ZERO wolves. 100,000 deer killed during hunting season, and it’s not
even a dent in the deer population. Natural processes have been ousted and
ignored–hunters there would freak if they if they saw a wolf. I can just
hear their screams of, “Those wolves are going to eat all our game…” It’s
the same story that’s going on across the country. Hunters don’t want
healthy deer or elk populations, they want a surplus to justify their
“harvests.”

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